13 Jun 1907
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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1907
Page
1
Last Sunday evening at the U B church a crowded audience witnessed well arranged children's exercises. The program featured song, recitations, marches and drills with classes and individuals well memorized. The event closed with a tableau under colored light.
The annual Rager family reunion gathered in Silver Lake on June 6 with nearly one hundred attendees from Warsaw Goshen North Manchester Huntington Markle Laketon Rosan Sidney Mentone and nearby areas. Officers were chosen at Samuel Rager homestead and plans were made to hold next year’s reunion at Silver Lake.
The Mentone band conducted a Memorial Day observance Sunday with appropriate processional music and remarks. Local residents gathered for the ceremony, paying tribute to service members as part of a community commemorative event.
Akron defeated North Manchester 10 to 5 in a Sunday baseball clash at Akron with fans noting rowdy play. Earlier North Manchester lost 10 to 5 to Akron while Claypool edged North Manchester at Claypool 6 to 5, drawing local spectators.
Edward Sloan of Syracuse was moved to the Longcliff asylum at Logansport on Monday for confinement and care.
Residents of Silver Lake announce the arrival of Harry Graham and his family who purchased the Getty & Jontz livery barn last week and moved into the McClure property at the corner of Walnut and High streets.
William Wiley rural carrier on route No 2 will take a 30 day vacation starting the 15th. He will leave Sunday for Washington Iowa to join his wife there and visit for a couple of weeks. They plan to visit other points in Iowa before returning to Indiana.
Sausage McKrill, jailed on a larceny charge, is reported seriously ill. He supposedly smokes about 100 cigarets daily, aided by friends who supply tobacco and paper. he consumes a box of matches daily and has required medical attention multiple times since confinement. The case is noted in Warsaw Indiana.
The home is not walls or laundry but the family bond. A family may live in a flat and have meals in a restaurant while maintaining the home sentiment. The essence lies in the people and shared life.
Housewives and seamstresses will pay six cents a spool for cotton thread up from five. Standard spool cotton has advanced from 55 to 67 cents a dozen spools. Merchants nationwide await the price rise while promising a narrow profit of five cents per dozen spools.
Samuel Montel, five miles southeast of Silver Lake, reports nine sheep killed by dogs on Bronday night with one missing, likely dead. Noah Shireman nearby states three sheep crippled on Tuesday afternoon. The raiders are suspected to be the same pack that has plagued the Scherer flock. The situation is growing serious and a plan to catch the marauders is urged.
A ball game Sunday afternoon features the Silver Lake Grays versus a North Manchester team at the South Silver Lake ball ground. The game follows the I. C. O. F. Memorial services and promises a fiercely contested match with both squads aiming to win.
Measles are plentiful in the country north east of here and two or three cases of typhoid fever are reported in the vicinity of Yellow Creek lake.
Rev. Er. E. Wright of the M. E. church conducted baptismal services last Thursday at the lake. Ten were baptized by immersion and two were sprinkled. A large crowd attended the ceremony.
An editor sits isolated, imagining his death and ascent to paradise. He envisions a afterlife reunion with truth, cursing those who swindled readers. He envisions proving their guilt by exposing a clue hidden in his own paper.
Homer Becraft of Warsaw swallowed corrosive sublimate after a marital dispute and a morose weekend. A medical exam found severe mouth and throat burns but not enough to prove fatal.
Postmaster Ferree received a communication on Monday from the post office regarding rural carriers pay. The notice outlines contemplated changes and administrative steps to implement the adjustments.
Uncle John Bulger attended a Germantown church service with Rev. Kain and a large congregation. The visit recalled his younger days in Ohio where country folk gathered after services to visit and exchange greetings for hours.
Silver Lake Lodge No. 576 I O F plans services at Lakeview Cemetery next Sunday afternoon June 16. Local officers urge attendance to honor departed members and keep lodge traditions.
An article notes a Minnesota man’s weed-killing home remedy using clover thyme and blue grass seed to clear roadside and vacant lots. It also reports Silver Lake Lodge No 516 I C O F planning a Memorial Service at Lakeview Cemetery next Sunday June 16 with a cornet band and parade participation urged for all Odd Fellows and lodge members.
The American flag association asks all citizens to observe Flag Day on Friday June 14. True Americans in Silver Lake and nearby areas are urged to remember the date and display their flags that day.
Fisherman reports catching a twelve pound shad Paulus and a large twelve pound carp during a lake outing. He notes the carp are injuring the lake's better class of fish and urges a method to rid the water of these monsters.
Mrs James Colbert will start to Frazier Colorado this Thursday evening and remain for some time with her husband and brother employed there. She will be accompanied to Washington Iowa by her mother Mrs William Wiley who will visit relatives there for several weeks.
All K of P members are requested to meet in K of P hall at 1 30 Sunday and join the procession to decorate the cemetery for their deceased brothers. June is K P decoration day but Lakeview lodge has no members buried here.
The text shows a damaged OCR fragment mentioning Miss Madge Zimmerman in Texas and a Record Office receipt. It references a person named Zimmerman and a place Tosa ford Texas with an unclear journey noted. No clear event or outcome is readable.
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